Documents of special interest

‘The Great Man … is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without respect and
without the fear of “opinion”; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and
“respectability”, and altogether everything that is the “virtue of the herd”.
If he cannot lead, he goes alone. … He knows he is incommunicable: he finds
it tasteless to be familiar. … When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask.
There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.’